The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is sounding the alarm over a series of new executive orders issued by the Trump administration. The respected organization is calling the new EOs a direct attack on decades of hard-fought civil rights protections. Legal experts from the organization have sharply criticized the measures, which they say…
A federal panel of three judges has mandated that the Mississippi Legislature establish additional Black-majority House and Senate districts following a lawsuit alleging the dilution of Black voting power. The ruling, delivered on July 2, sided with the Mississippi Conference of the NAACP and Black voters, who contended that the 2022 district maps were designed…